Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was back at work within 49 days . |
| 2 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 3 | A fortnight after the operation , Bowles was back at work . |
| 4 | Now that Sarah was back at work Anne was not visiting the Redmond house as frequently , and she missed her visits there . |
| 5 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 6 | Saturday 's hero was back at work at the ground changing the fixtures board . |
| 7 | Jackie , of Stockton Road , Hartlepool , was back at work yesterday doing the same round . |
| 8 | The court heard that the employee injured by the machine used to cut aluminium frames had made a full recovery and was back at work . |
| 9 | Yesterday Barry was back at work but said he had considered giving up his job and moving house following the horrific incident . |
| 10 | Lily Bates was back at work , Rose could see her unmistakable small figure with her shock of grey hair quickly moving a flow of green jersey through her machine . |
| 11 | I was back at work which |
| 12 | Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer . |
| 13 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 14 | Unemployment is a major affliction , and at the time of the riots 36 per cent of the workforce in Handsworth was out of work , while the figure for people under 24 years was 50 per cent . |
| 15 | Chapman 's impressive record at Northampton and Leeds — and the fact that he was out of work — made him an ideal choice . |
| 16 | In effect , Carl ( as thousands of others ) was out of work , and at a dead-end . |
| 17 | Unlike Jack Kettlewell , his sexual desire increased when he was out of work and his wife had difficulty in keeping up with his need . |
| 18 | David Adams was out of work and money was tight . |
| 19 | ‘ If I was out of work I 'm sure Denis would be the first person to try and help me . |
| 20 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 21 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from Markham Main four years ago , was out of work until he got a job at Rossington colliery , Doncaster . |
| 22 | But when British Coal announced new shutdowns , he was out of work again . |
| 23 | He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past . |
| 24 | Coventry boss Bobby Gould said : ‘ We had a 17-year-old Irishman , an 18-year-old Zimbabwean , a postman who was out of work for 18 months and an on-loan forward . |
| 25 | By 1940 , unemployment was nearly 50% less than in 1932 ; but even in the best pre-war year ( 1937 ) one in eight of the labour force was out of work . |
| 26 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
| 27 | I I was er I was out of work then , for er four month , during the er er nineteen twenty six strike . |
| 28 | This means that when I was out of work for six weeks and most needed the publication , I could not receive it . |
| 29 | He was out of work . |
| 30 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |